Publishing Business & Licensing

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Discuss the logistics and legalities of publishing, ask for advice or share useful info to help other creators publish their games.
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d20 Modern's Open Content from d20 Future & Menace Manual
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My self-publishing journey in 2025: a year in review
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Getting reviews
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Struggling to Find the Resources
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Play tester advice
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Basic Fantasy 4th Ed Sales across various platforms
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Tariffs, posting and past campaign fullfillment. As an indie game studio, here's what we plan to do.
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The Grinning Frog
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Lalato
Crowdfunding Publishers/Creators, what barriers stop you from offering your product after completion?
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lmpjr007
Prisoners of the Black Box: Mister Mystery & Predator (Super-Powered by M&M) is now available
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Daniel D. Fox
Tariffs, Tabletop RPGs, and What You Need to Know as a US Publisher (indie or large)
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Seeking Community Input: Map Making Tools That Actually Serve GMs
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Looking for specific mechanics in OGL / CC-BY products
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The Firebird
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lmpjr007
Prisoners of the Black Box: Coil & Demolition (Super-Powered by M&M) is now available
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5E24 Product Identity
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Restless Entropy Games
Indie Publisher Cross Promotion
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Replace AI art with real art and charge for it? Looking for advice.
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junsey
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General Questions For A New Book
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Melina.Vortex
I Wore Every Hat in My Second Crowdfunding Campaign – Here’s What I Learned
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Kickstarter pre-launch followers vs total funded
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Darrin Drader
Daring & Dread and Reign of Discordia Are Now Open Settings
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How much would a map cost?
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DMs Guild Pulls the OGL
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Anon Adderlan
How can the tabletop gaming industry survive without China?
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DarkCrisis
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Sacrosanct
Limited Edition Box Set Styles, which do you prefer?
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Company starting a second factory in USA
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der_kluge
license legalities of a novel?
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overgeeked
overgeeked
Marc Radle
[Kobold Press] State of Play: shipping changes threaten the hobby
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nyvinter
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Snarf Zagyg
Why do lawyers write like that: Worrying about the OGL (Part 3)
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overgeeked
The ORC License and Publisher Restrictions
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Anon Adderlan
To what degree does the ORC license apply to VTTs?
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Morrus
Morrus
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Best time to release a Forgotten Realms product on DMsGuild?
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aco175
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junsey
Exploring the Realm of Indie Role-Playing Games
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Art for DM's Guild publications
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LordEntrails
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Morrus
Kickstarter's 'U' Shaped Curve Is A Reverse 'J' And More Pronounced Than You Thought!
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Make Sure You Know This if You're Using AI Art
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Anon Adderlan
Anon Adderlan
Morrus
A Basic Guide To Using ORC (Open RPG Creative License)
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Meahuys
When to start publishing?
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cmdr23
Free League forcing Alchemy VTT to remove PDFs - Anti-consumer behaviour?
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Cergorach
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Art Waring
Protecting Your Creative Works From Data Scraping [Mod+]
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Meech17
On Publicly Sharing Paid Content: Legality, and all around Best Practices.
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LordEntrails
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BASHMAN
Kickstarter Promotion Services: Are These Legit?
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3.5 AND 5.1 SRD- Can you use both in a published RPG game?
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Sacrosanct
Indie Publishers, what are you working on for 2023?
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Plug Your Commercial Use Stock Art Here
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Reynard
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Morrus
The OGL -- Just What's Going On?
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Let's make 1/27 Open License Day!
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aco175
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TTRPG Freelancer Writer/Editor Rate Survey
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Morrus
Let's talk about printing & shipping RPG books
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Reviews/marketing advice??
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aco175
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Reynard
Indie Collaboration
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Jon Hodgson
Cold City and Hot War set to return
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The Final Open RPG Creator (ORC) License Is Here!
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Multiple Games Stat Blocks
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thullgrim
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The Grinning Frog
Here's what it is really like being an independent publisher
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Paizo Posts New Draft of ORC License
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kenada
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TTRPG Freelancer Artist/Cartographer Rate Survey
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PJ Coffey
Industry Episodes
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Hello, I am lawyer with a PSA: almost everyone is wrong about the OGL and SRD. Clearing up confusion.
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Resources for new designers and publishers
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Morrus
Open RPG Creative (ORC) License Draft Published
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Morrus
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Michael O'Brien
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Michael O'Brien
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Lalato
Digital Publishing Platforms
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Lalato
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Jface
Logistics + Price for publishing a 6x9 Hardcover like ICRPG & EZD6
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Morrus
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Sacrosanct
You've just taken over WotC, what do you do?
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nevin
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It is time to forgive WOTC and get back onboard.
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darjr
Ben Riggs talks about Why WotC tried to cancel the OGL
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darjr
Bob the World Builder Interviews Kyle Brink
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John Lloyd1
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We Still Need ORC
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CC: Is "For Use With 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons" allowed
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darjr
Nerd Immersion interviews Kyle Brink
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Dungeonosophy
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Divest the D&D RPG Studio (helpfully modelling a drastic course of action for Chris Cocks)
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Dungeonosophy
Umbran asked what actions would it take for WOTC to 'make it right' for me. Here ya go!...
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darjr
Ginny Di interviews WotC's Kyle Brink
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5e Nexus announced by Demiplane!
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dave2008
Drafts do not come with contracts attached?
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Is it time to revive the D20 License? (Or equivalent)
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Smaller publishers' take on OGL on Shane Plays podcast
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Myrdin Potter
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dave2008
1.1/Terms Signature Leak, it was a draft?
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Parmandur
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Morrus
Kyle Brink Interviewed by Teos Abadia (Alphastream) on OGL, WotC, & D&D
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Ginny Di sits down with Kyle Brink
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Morrus
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Alzrius
Did we ever get to see the OGL v2.0?
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Burt Baccara
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Dungeonosophy
[ORC] Vision for one or more ORC systems: convert the entire OGC archives from the start, using a massive team of converters
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darjr
Ryan Dancy live stream about WotCs surprising change.
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EthanSental
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List of potential post-OGL 5E replacement RPGs
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Jadeite
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Levistus's_Leviathan
If You're "Permanently" Boycotting WotC, They're Not Going To Listen To You
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aco175
A Meme thread as a break from the torches and pitchforks.
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MarkB
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darjr
Keith Baker asks about walking away from Eberron.
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wingsandsword
D&D was built on ripping things off (Afterthoughts on the OGL/CC issue)
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History Check: Open Game Content from WotC
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Alzrius
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Pedantic
NPR Coverage
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Is WotC playing 4d Chess with the 5.1 SRD CC?
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Faolyn
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ORC ENVOY: A proposal for an inter-system conversion site, a conversion app, and inter-company coöperation for ORC systems
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Bob World Builder is soliciting interview questions for D&D Executive Producer Kyle Brink
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Glade Riven
1.0a is effectively dead even if Wizards backs down, but it is still important to fight for it.
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Stormonu
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darjr
WotC updates SRD resources page with CC faq and SRD 5.1 under CC
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Morrus
Morrus
Morrus
How to use the OGL
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Voadam
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robconley
An Unexpected Victory, Unconditional Surrender, and Unfinished Business.
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